History Creator / VanBeurenStudios

* AdvertisedExtra: "Molly Moo Cow and Rip Van Winkle" is mainly about Molly getting drunk over her conscience's objections and messing around with a makeshift bowling alley set up in the woods by a bunch of gnomes. Rip gets less than a minute of screen time and (predictably) spends most of it asleep, his only contribution to the plot being acidentally letting Molly's conscience out of the beer barrel Molly trapped it in.

* AlcoholHic: Molly Moo Cow gets this after getting drunk in "Molly Moo Cow Meets Rip Van Winkle".

* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: Before starting their Little King shorts, Van Beuren made two shorts based on the Little King's companion strip, "Sentinel Louie", which were both released as part of the Aesop's Fables series of shorts.
** "Plane Dumb" feels like a prototype for the Van Beuren Amos n Andy shorts, since the bulk of the cartoon has Tom and Jerry disguised in blackface makeup and acting like Amos N Andy, even talking a lot, [[SuddenlyVoiced something they almost never did in previous shorts]].

* SuperStrength / PintSizedPowerhouse: The puppy in "Dinnertime" is able to easily lift up a comically large piece of meat from Farmer Al Falfa's butcher shop before he gets caught.
* SuddenlyVoiced:

** The Little King, like in the newspaper comic he comes from, is mostly voiceless (to the extent that when he "speaks" in "Jest of Honor", [[TheUnintelligible its completely unintelligible gibberish]]) but he inexplicably gets a handful of speaking lines in "Marching Along".

* AncientGreece: The setting of "Fiddlin' Fun".

** "The Farmarette" features a boop oop a doop cat girl that is obviously inspired by WesternAnimation/BettyBoop; she's even voiced by one of Betty's actresses, Bonnie Poe!

* ButtMonkey: Mr. Bang in the Toonerville Trolley series.

* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eKCcABs_-v0 Farmer Al Falfa Sees New York]]

* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9rAiz4T178E The Jail Breakers]]--May 6--Aesop's Fables--Paul Terry
* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1l7EQNT3HcE Woodchoppers]]--May 9--Aesop's Fables--Paul Terry
* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LdSzgQ8NcsE Presto Chango]]--MAy 20--Aesop's Fables--Paul Terry
* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ6t1IKJpEM Custard Pies]]--May 26--Aesop's Fables--Paul Terry
* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-jhalxNPfFo Skating Hounds]]--May 27--Aesop's Fables--Paul Terry

* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e6CCNvLXnQg House Cleaning Time]]--July 23--Aesop's Fables--John Foster

* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9BoGRhivPnE The Big Burg]]--Aesop's Fables--?

* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ajB3F7Hdhjc Fly's Bride]]--September 21--Aesop's Fables--John Foster
* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4QkkxvIHPok Summer Time]]--October 11--Aesop's Fables--John Foster

* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E0O1Knzi_0I Night Club]]--Dec. 1--Aesop's Fables--John Foster, Mannie Davis
* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T5xr21F6y5U Close Call]]--Dec. 1--Aesop's Fables--Harry Bailey

* TheBigDamnKiss: Milton Mouse gives this to his girlfriend in the end of "Circus Capers", and [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar it literally makes her panties fly clean off!]]

* DistressedDamsel: Cubby Bear's love interest Honey, who seems to exist only to be rescued by Cubby.

* HarmlessVillain: The Lepodopterist in "Molly Moo Cow and the Butterflies". He's not even portrayed as malicious, but as a wimpy fool who only wants to catch butterflies, [[ObliviouslyEvil obliviously]] at the expense of their freedom. He even sings about how he's too cowardly to go hunting for lions or tigers, so he spends time catching butterflies as his hobby.

* {{Hobos}}: The antagonist of "Scottie Finds A Home" is a vagrant who heckles the kittens grandma for free food in her own home.

** "Plane Dumb" feels like a prototype for the Van Beuren Amos n Andy shorts, since the bulk of the cartoon has Tom and Jerry disguised in blackface makeup and acting like Amos N Andy, even talking a lot, [[SuddenlyVoiced something they almost never did in previous shorts.]]

* VillainousCrossdresser: The robber villain of "The Phantom Rocket".

* PrecisionFStrike: "Goofy Goat Antics" was banned from many theaters for use of the word, "damn". Note that this was three years before UsefulNotes/TheHayesCode.

[[IThoughtItMeant Not to be]] [[NamesTheSame confused with]] THOSE [[WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool Van Burens]], or UsefulNotes/MartinVanBuren, or ''VideoGame/FalloutVanBuren.''

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5veVBWNxYw Wot A Night]]--Aug 1, Toma nd Jerry--Foster, Stallings

* AsteroidsMonster: In "Parrotville Fire Department", one of the parrots tries to take down one of living little flames with an axe, but this just splits them into even smaller little fires.

** The buzzard who turns his head into that of Jimmy Dirante in "On The Pan".

* Aesop's Fables, AKA "Aesop's Film Fables" (1920-1928 for silent shorts, 1929-1933 for sound shorts) inherited from the Fables Studio, which was formerly run by Paul Terry. Originally a long running silent cartoon series, it became a series of sound cartoons which introduced one of the earliest sound cartoons, "Dinnertime", which notably predates Disney's WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie by a month. The sound era of the series lasted around 120 shorts, including its sub-series. Paul Terry's Farmer Al Falfa was also a recurring star of the silent shorts, even appearing in a few of the early sound films before Terry, who had left to found [[TerryToons his own studio]], wrangled back the rights to the character.

Walt Disney Studios had already made a splash with music and sound effects in their early toons, and Van Beuren promised to follow suit and do the same later on. The producers hired [[UsefulNotes/NoteworthyDisneyStaff Disney veterans]] Burt Gillett and Tom Palmer to create a new series in hopes of jump-starting the B-list studio’s reputation. The somewhat well-received series was called “Rainbow Parade”, a series of lavish SillySymphonies clones, also starring licensed characters like "Toonerville Folks" and "WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat".

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zksn1FHCRq8 It's a Greek Life]]--August 2, Rainbow Parade--Dan Gordon

[[IThoughtItMeant Not to be]] [[NamesTheSame confused with]] THOSE [[WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool Van Burens!]], and DEFINITELY not to be confused with UsefulNotes/MartinVanBuren.

* MsFanservice: The MaeWest horse from "Galloping Fanny", and the Mae West duck in "Mild Cargo".

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Celebrity caricatures were common in several of the shorts, such as Honey Bear dressing up as MaeWest and Gandhi making a cameo in "Croon Crazy", and a bird in "A Little Bird Told Me" being named Walter Finchell, a play on the famous radio star Walter Winchell.

** "The Farmarette" features a boop oop a doop cat girl that is obviously inspired by BettyBoop; she's even voiced by one of Betty's actresses, Bonnie Poe!

* SuddenlyVoiced: Much like the [[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry more well known cat and mouse duo]], Tom and Jerry very rarely speak in most of their shorts (mostly making mumbles or yells instead), with the exception of "Plane Dumb".

* TheVoiceless: Just like in the newspaper comic he hails from, the Little King has no dialogue (save for one line, "Gentlemen, I'm here!", in "Marching Along"). Even when he does "speak" in "Jest of Honor", it's [[TheUnintelligible completely unintelligible gibberish.]]

* TheVoiceless: Just like in the comic, the Little King has no dialogue. Even when he does "speak" in "Jest of Honor", it's [[TheUnintelligible completely unintelligible gibberish.]]

* Van Beuren's Tom and Jerry (1931-1933) Two bungling young men, one short, one tall, which ran for 26 shorts. Absolutely no relation to MGM's TomAndJerry shorts, but when reissued as home movies, the characters were renamed "Dick & Larry" to prevent confusion.

* SuddenlyVoiced: Much like the [[TomAndJerry more well known cat and mouse duo]], Tom and Jerry very rarely speak in most of their shorts (mostly making mumbles or yells instead), with the exception of "Plane Dumb".

* Aesop's Fables, AKA "Aesop's Film Fables" (1920-1928 for silent shorts, 1929-1933 for sound shorts) inherited from the Fables Studio, which was formerly run by Paul Terry. Originally a long running silent cartoon series, it became a series of sound cartoons which introduced one of the earliest sound cartoons, "Dinnertime", which notably predates Disney's SteamboatWillie by a month. The sound era of the series lasted around 120 shorts, including its sub-series. Paul Terry's Farmer Al Falfa was also a recurring star of the silent shorts, even appearing in a few of the early sound films before Terry, who had left to found [[TerryToons his own studio]], wrangled back the rights to the character.

* AncientGreece: The setting of "Fiddlin' Fun".
* AnimateInanimateObject: The living clocks in "Grandfather's Clock", and the living kitchen appliances in "Picnic Panic".
* APirate400YearsTooLate: Even though most of the Cubby Bear cartoons are clearly set in the 1930's, there are pirates in "Bubbles and Troubles".
* ArtifactTitle: The Aesop's Fables sound films, which abandoned the format of the silent shorts (which were somewhat based on the actual fables and had "Aesops" at the end of each one) in favor of the musical gag cartoon format.

--description cited from [[http://www.toonjet.com/blog/index.php/van_beuren_studios_lost_cartoon_treasure?blog=2 Toonjet.Com]].

[[IThoughtItMeant Not to be]] [[NamesTheSame confused with]] THOSE [[TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool Van Burens!]], and DEFINITELY not to be confused with UsefulNotes/MartinVanBuren.